Even with Dwayne Johnson and Dane DeHaan sitting out the season, the next four months will offer plenty of opportunities to check out local talent on the big screen.
From animated films such as "The Boxtrolls" and "The Penguins of Madagascar" to film...

A pair of brilliant British scientists, a troubled woman searching for answers along the Pacific Crest Trail and a drunken curmudgeon turned unlikely father figure are among the diverse characters populating the buzzed-about movies at this year's...

A24 has picked up domestic rights to Noah Baumbach's comedy "While We're Young," starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, for $4 million.
The deal came on Monday at the Toronto Film Festival, two days after the movie,...

It's ungracious, I suppose, to ask. But has the blob known as the Toronto International Film Festival, North America's largest and most popular cinema gathering with attendance inching toward the 500,000 mark, lost its way in 2014 among a forest of...

Ben Stiller has been playing forty-ish people at existential crossroads for a bit now, most recently in his directorial passion project “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”
But with the help of Noah Baumbach, he tackles things from a different direction in “While We’re Young.” The new indie, which world-premiered Saturday at the Toronto international Film Festival, has on its mind not just the usual tropes about career and relationships from movies on the subject, but shifting...

: Witty, articulate and reminiscent of several talented directors who no longer mean so much to today's kids, Noah Baumbach's latest stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as husband-and-wife filmmakers who "adopt" a mid-20s hipster couple as friends. Though not as broadly appealing as a Judd Apatow picture, Baumbach's own acutely observed this-is-life laffer features his most relatable characters yet. Marketed right, it stands to considerably outperform his other pics, which tend to top out around $4 million....

Healthy, even heated competition between film festivals is nothing new. Cannes was founded in the late '30s as the French response to Venice. In recent years, Shanghai has felt the heat from the government-backed Beijing, while both SXSW and Tribeca have sought to position themselves as viable alternatives to Sundance.
Rarely, however, have such tensions spiked quite so visibly, or with such high stakes involved, as in the case of Telluride and Toronto.
Nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains, the 41-year-...

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Things didn't work out especially well the last time Dean Wareham came West.
"Why can't we smile just like we used to?" the singer-guitarist asks in "California (All the Way)," by his beloved New York guitar band Luna. A highlight from the group's 1994 album "Bewitched," the tune charts the slow disintegration of a couple's relationship after the woman follows the man to California — and then promptly drives him crazy.
Two decades later, the veteran musician has returned to the West Coast, minus...

I think we need a new movie genre dubbed "Girls" for films echoing the vision articulated so well by Lena Dunham in her tart HBO comedy about single, young females in the city trying to figure themselves out. Life is awkward, emotions are unfiltered, it all unfolds with a raw, R-rated edge.
That kind of truth-telling anchors Gillian Robespierre's "Obvious Child," a quirky romantic comedy starring the very funny Jenny Slate. It is an affable addition to the growing sisterhood of films with that awkward...

Martin Scorsese's Sikelia Prods. has partnered with Brazilian producer Rodrigo Teixeira and his RT Features on a joint venture aimed at producing first and second films from emerging filmmakers worldwide.
Pact includes a film fund that will finance up to five projects with budgets under $5 million each over the next three years. The slate will be focused on auteur-driven films by emerging filmmakers that have crossover appeal and can reach commercial auds.
RT Features, led by exec producers Teixeira...